{"id":1133,"date":"2015-07-17T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T12:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2019-06-27T10:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T14:22:13","slug":"thank-you-mr-iwata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/?p=1133","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, Mr. Iwata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Satoru Iwata passed away a week ago on July 11th.\u00a0 There have been many <a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/248403\/Satoru_Iwata_in_quotes_The_personality_the_programmer_the_leader.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">write-ups<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/07\/satoru-iwata-gamer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-dobid=\"hdw\">remembrances<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of Mr. Iwata online, and I have been struggling to find what I wanted to add.\u00a0 Like many, I feel a profound sense of loss for a man I have never met.<\/p>\n<p>Iwata\u00a0was only 55.\u00a0 He wasn&#8217;t just the President and CEO of Nintendo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgamer.net\/articles\/satoru-iwatas-10-greatest-achievements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">whose many accomplishments can be read about elsewhere<\/a>.\u00a0 He was one of us, someone who loved games, and fun.\u00a0 Through his Nintendo Directs, he was not just an advocate for what was coming the following season from your friends at Nintendo, he was an advocate for gaming and play itself.\u00a0 More than that, he was \u2013 by all accounts \u2013 a humble, kind man.\u00a0 He left the world a slightly better place than how he found it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not much, but you may have seen some of my fake Commodore 64 screens on Twitter.\u00a0 I put together\u00a0a fake Nintendo Entertainment System\u00a0screen below, in tribute.\u00a0 I&#8217;m certainly using too many background palettes and pretty sure I&#8217;ve used up more than my allotted tiles, but it&#8217;s very close to what could actually be displayed on a real NES.\u00a0 Thank you, Mr. Iwata, for everything.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iwata.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1136\" src=\"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iwata.png\" alt=\"iwata\" width=\"512\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iwata.png 512w, http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iwata-300x281.png 300w, http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iwata-320x300.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Satoru Iwata passed away a week ago on July 11th.\u00a0 There have been many write-ups and\u00a0remembrances\u00a0of Mr. Iwata online, and I have been struggling to find what I wanted to add.\u00a0 Like many, I feel a profound sense of loss for a man I have never met. Iwata\u00a0was only 55.\u00a0 He wasn&#8217;t just the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/?p=1133\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thank You, Mr. Iwata<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/directly.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Gkjg-ih","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}